The C Language Reference describes the C programming language as implemented in Microsoft C. The book's organization is based on the ANSI C standard (sometimes referred to as C89) with additional material on the Microsoft extensions to the ANSI C standard.

• Organization of the C Language Reference

For additional reference material on C++ and the preprocessor, see:

• C++ Language Reference

• Preprocessor Reference

Compiler and linker options are documented in the C/C++ Building Reference.

C++ Language Reference